CBC News: Country Canada (until January 2006 simply titled Country Canada) was a Canadian television series broadcast on CBC Television, hosted by Reg Sherren. It was produced by CBC Winnipeg, and profiled rural and country life in Canada.
Sandy Cushin was Country Canada's host between 1975 and 2000.
Country Canada began in 1954 as Country Calendar, and was also produced by CBWT.
On April 4, 2007, CBC announced the cancellation of Country Canada at the end of that season, after 54 years. The last broadcast was Sept. 16, 2007.
In 2001, the CBC and Corus Entertainment launched a digital television channel fashioned after Country Canada, called Country Canada. Now the service is called bold
Famous quotes containing the words country and/or canada:
“The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)
“What makes the United States government, on the whole, more tolerable—I mean for us lucky white men—is the fact that there is so much less of government with us.... But in Canada you are reminded of the government every day. It parades itself before you. It is not content to be the servant, but will be the master; and every day it goes out to the Plains of Abraham or to the Champs de Mars and exhibits itself and toots.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)